Compliance Corner August 2025
Compliance Corner August 2025
Health Center Program award recipients with January 1, 2026, or February 1, 2026, period of performance start dates will receive one-year extensions to their current three-year periods of performance. Eligible Health Center Program grantees must respond to HRSA’s request for information (RFI) by providing a SF-424A, Budget Narrative, Form 1C, Form 3, Project Narrative Update, and Supplemental Award Update (if applicable). Health centers must submit their response to this request no later than the deadline indicated in HRSA’s Electronic Handbooks (EHBs).
Source: HRSA
HRSA released new 2024 Uniform Data System (UDS) data showing HRSA-funded health centers served a record 32.4 million patients last year, an increase of 1.1 million patients. In 2024, health centers served:
Source: HRSA
HRSA released the fiscal year (FY) 2026 Service Area Competition (SAC) Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for services areas with a March 1, 2026 (HRSA-26-002), April 1, 2026 (HRSA-26-004), May 1, 2026 (HRSA-26-005), and June 1, 2026 (HRSA-26-006) period of performance start date. With each SAC funding opportunity, organizations compete for funding to provide comprehensive primary health care in service areas currently served by the Health Center Program.
Find details for each of the announced service areas on the Service Area Announcement Table.
Access the NOFOs in Grants.gov (HRSA-26-002, HRSA-26-004, HRSA-26-005, and HRSA-26-006).
All rounds of SAC applications are open in Grants.gov. Please note when your SAC application will open in HRSA’s Electronic Handbooks (EHBs).
Official funding instructions can be found HERE.
Source: HRSA
On Monday, August 4, HRSA awarded Community Health Quality Recognition (CHQR) badges to nearly 1,000 HRSA-funded health centers across the country for excellence in clinical quality. This year, HRSA awarded two new CHQR badges – Preventive Health and High-Value Care. The preventive health badge recognizes clinical quality in primary preventive health and the high-value care badge recognizes improvements in clinical quality while minimizing costs. HRSA will release the updated CHQR Dashboard on Monday, August 18.
Source: HRSA
HRSA released the FY 2026 Health Center Program Look-Alike (LAL) Renewal Designation (RD) application. Beginning in FY 2026, LALs will transition from a 3-year to a 4-year period of designation.
This change will reduce the administrative burden for LALs while maintaining HRSA’s commitment to ensuring continued compliance with Health Center Program requirements.
Key Transition Details:
LALs with a December 31, 2025, period of designation end date will receive a one-year extension and will instead submit an LAL Annual Certification.
All other LALs with a period of designation end date in FY 2026 will transition to a 4-year period of designation following submission and approval of their LAL RD application.
Find application deadlines and TA materials on the LAL RD TA webpage.
Source: HRSA
HRSA is transitioning from the Electronic Handbooks (EHBs) to GrantSolutions, a shared service provider that supports the full lifecycle of grants management. Some organizations may already be familiar with GrantSolutions for the management of grants with other awarding agencies. This transition for HRSA will streamline grant management activities and enhance operational efficiencies across HHS.
GrantSolutions offers various capabilities, including the automation of the grant Funding Opportunity process; streamlined application review, approval, and award processing; Risk Management Services and closeout workflows. Some post-award reporting tasks will remain in EHBs.
Over the coming weeks, onboarding activities will begin for select programs.
Source: HRSA
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